Likud’s answer: YesSharren Haskel, MK Likud:
"During the second intifada, as a female combat soldier in the Border Police I fought to serve in Jerusalem. I participated in arrests, clashes in alleys, and the difficult sights in the scenes of terrorist attacks I will never forget.
As someone who trained young female fighters and saw the fire burning in their eyes and unwavering faith to serve the State of Israel, despite the risk to their lives, I have no doubt that you are wrong.
Moreover, in recent years we have seen how great the contribution of female fighters is, in all frameworks, thwarting attacks, in combat operations and guarding the borders. You can hear it even from IDF commanders themselves.
The State of Israel is expected to face many challenges in the future. We want, need and certainly can take part, each one in her own way and faith, in defending the homeland."Source

Likud’s answer: NoPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered Likud ministers to oppose a bill calling for the death penalty for terrorists. The prime minister issued his order just an hour before the Ministerial Committee for Legislation was meant to discuss the bill.Source

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Likud’s answer: YesAccording to the ministry’s new position, the criteria for adoption will address the potential parents’ suitability for a given child, regardless of sexual orientation. The state's position was filed in response to a petition to the High Court filed by the Association of Israeli Gay Fathers, together with the Israel Religious Action Center of the Reform movement, against the Social Affairs Ministry and the attorney general.
“In light of the public opposition to the state’s position, Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services Minister Haim Katz demanded a re-examination of the position,” the ministry said in a statement to the state attorney, who represents the State of Israel in court.Source

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Likud’s answer: Yes, but only for medical useThe Knesset plenum approved in preliminary reading the amendment bill to the Dangerous Drugs Orders Law that will allow the export of medical cannabis.
The measure that was initiated by MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) passed 33-0.
“One of our duties as lawmakers is to act on issues that seem a bit groundbreaking and in places that the government has yet to set foot in,” Kisch said before the vote.
“On the one hand, we see that farmers here in Israel are going through rough times, and on the other hand, we see that the whole topic of medical cannabis is gaining steam all over the world,” he said. “After analyzing the global cannabis market, it seems that the potential annual profit of exporting cannabis is around NIS 1 billion.”
The explanatory notes of the bill say the purpose of the bill is to create a clear distinction between trading cannabis that is labeled as a “dangerous drug” and exporting cannabis for medical use.Source

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Likud’s answer: YesLikud MK Nava Boker, who sponsored the bill, said last March: "I presented this bill following the incitement and riots we have been seeing in Arab towns in Israel. The current reality is unbearable -- protesters are burning Israeli flags and just go on with their lives. The current penalties, which are ridiculous, are barely enforced. It is time to impose a harsher sentence and a hefty fine to end this disgraceful phenomenon."
Boker said she believes harsher punitive measures will be able to generate deterrence and curtail incitement.Source

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Likud’s answer: YesIn a move seen as paving the way for marijuana to be decriminalized, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Thursday he plans to dramatically change the way the Israeli penal code treats private, recreational use of the drug.
Speaking at a press conference to announce his decision, Erdan said he will be adopting proposals put forward by the Anti-Drug Authority to adopt the “Portugal Model,” in which possession and use of the drug would be decriminalized and treated largely as a health issue.Source

Likud’s answer: NoIsrael does not intervene in the Syrian civil war but will not allow attacks from the country to be launched at Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) said Wednesday, a day after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and other regional issues.
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“You ask about the future of [Israel’s] relations with President [Bashar] Assad? I would ask what is the future of President Assad in general?” Netanyahu told Russian Jewish leaders. “We do not interfere in this issue. We’re making sure that Syria won’t become a launchpad for attacks against Israel.”Source

Likud’s answer: No, we should eliminate any opportunity for terrorists to enter the countryIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) on Sunday rejected a call to host refugees from Syria and elsewhere, saying that while Israel is "not indifferent to the human tragedy of the refugees," it is not in a position to take them in.
... Netanyahu stressed Israel’s medical care for over 1,000 injured Syrians, as well as efforts to aid African nations and thus stem the flow of migrants. However, he said that Israel’s “lack of demographic and geographic depth” requires controlling its borders against both “illegal migrants and terrorism.”
... Immigrant Absorption Minister Zeev Elkin (Likud) accused Herzog of gambling on Israel’s strategic interests for the sake of “one minute of favor” in international media. He also expressed the fear that the refugee crisis could give Palestinians an opening to bring the so-called right of return, which would allow Palestinians to return to land they occupied before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, in “through the back door.”
Transportation Minister Israel Katz (Likud) said it would be a mistake for Israel to get involved in the Syrian civil war by taking in refugees. “We are too close, too involved. We are not a European country,” he said.Source

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Likud’s answer: IncreasePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports a major increase in the 2016 defense budget, according to preliminary discussions in recent days at the Ministry of Finance as part of preparations for the proposed 2015-2016 budget. Netanyahu, who is still serving as acting Minister of Finance until a new government is sworn in, ordered the Ministry of Finance professional echelons to consider the budget consequences of increasing the defense budget beyond the NIS 55 billion allocated in the Ministry of Finance's planning for 2016.Source

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Likud’s answer: Decrease, to provide economic growthPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon announced a reduction in the sales and corporate taxes on Thursday, a move criticized by Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug.
Netanyahu and Kahlon said that value-added sales tax would be lowered from 18 percent to 17 percent beginning on October 1.
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In a joint press conference with Kahlon, Netanyahu said the move is designed to act as a “growth engine.”Source

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Likud’s answer: LowerPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon announced a reduction in the sales and corporate taxes on Thursday, a move criticized by Bank of Israel Governor Karnit...Source

Likud’s answer: HurtA new Likud campaign ad released on Thursday effectively compares government workers to Hamas terrorists. The video, filmed at a "support group" meeting, shows actors playing a dock worker, a regulatory agent, a former cellular executive, and a Hamas terrorist commiserating about how Netanyahu's policies have hurt them.
The ad opens with the actor portraying a dock worker saying, "I am here because of Bibi. After his reforms I suddenly had to start working, to start providing service to the public."Source

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Likud’s answer: NoMinister of Finance Yuval Steinitz is expected to submit to the cabinet a proposal that will upend the fiscal rules for public spending by the government. He proposes a new spending formula that will define public spending as a function of the average growth in the previous years while aiming for a debt-to-GDP ratio of 60%, the level stipulated in the EU Maastricht Treaty.
The current spending formula limits growth in government spending to 1.7% over the previous year, a figure that is in line with Israel's population growth rate. The new formula will let the government increase its spending in 2011 by 2.6% compared with 2010.
The Ministry of Finance said today that this will give the government greater flexibility even as it tries to reach the 60% debt-to-GDP ratio.Source

Likud’s answer: YesThe rich will be paying higher income taxes as of this year. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) signed the new tax regulations in recent days, which levy a 2% surtax on incomes of NIS 800,000 a year. This sum includes taxable income from any source - not just salary - including capital gains, dividends, interest, rents, etc. Steinitz had to sign the new withholding rules, so that now any employee with a monthly salary of over NIS 67,630 will pay the extra 2% starting January 2013. The treasury expects the tax hike to bring in NIS 600 million a year in higher tax revenues.Source

Labor Party’s answer: YesHis comments were swiftly denounced by members of Knesset, including Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria and Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, who are both often at the forefront of gender...Source

Labor Party’s answer: YesOpposition head Shelly Yachimovich (Labor) and other left-wing Knesset members on Wednesday hailed the decision of the US Supreme Court to grant same-sex couples the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples, expressing hope that Israel would also move toward recognizing gay marriage.Source

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Labor Party’s answer: YesMost parties have not issued a platform for the election, but even among the ones that have, only the Zionist camp, Meretz and Yesh Atid directly related to the gay community. They all promise to promote official recognition of same-sex couples, an amendment to the Interpretation Act prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, the possibility of equal adoption for same-sex couples, educational activity against homophobia, preventing discrimination of gay blood donation and promoting equality for transgenders.Source

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Labor Party’s answer: Pro-choiceThe debate drew heated responses from opposition lawmakers, with Zionist Union MK Revital Swid crying out: “Get out of our uteruses!” and her fellow party member Amir Peretz opining that the suggestion of injecting religion into the panel “brings us back to dark times.”Source

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Labor Party’s answer: Yes, but only for medical useWhile Zionist Union, Kulanu, Meretz and yes, the Joint List, are all for medical marijuana, only Kulanu and Meretz support decriminalizing the wacky...Source

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Labor Party’s answer: Less, and provide more government funding• The rehabilitation of the public healthcare system by increasing the government budget to the healthcare system to close the gap of 1.5 billion ₪ in the annual budget base, including a one-time supplement of 300 million in favor of shortening the queues.
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• The prevention of operation of private medical services (Sharap) in public hospitals and government regulation of ​​medical tourism.Source

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Labor Party’s answer: YesNetanyahu was responding to Israeli liberals led by opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor), who said Jewish history demands that the nation show compassion. Having themselves felt the “world’s silence,” Herzog said, “Jews cannot remain indifferent” to the carnage in Syria and the refugees’ plight.Source

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Labor Party’s answer: HelpHerzog welcomed the move, declaring that “Avi is an important and ground-breaking social leader who is implementing historic changes in the lives of weaker segments of society, of people with disabilities and of pensioners, as well as leading Israel’s workers to unprecedented accomplishments.”Source

Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: YesMK Haim Jelin (Yesh Atid) criticized Ron-Tal: "Instead of encouraging women who decided to take an important, active role in the defense of this country, the former GOC has decided to discourage them."
Jelin said further urged Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, whose officer oversees the IEC, to demand Ron-Tal retracts his statement.Source

Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: YesIn the current government, Yesh Atid—a centrist party led by Finance Minister Yair Lapid—plans to introduce a bill that would legalize civil unions, including same-sex...Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: YesAdoption Equality
Israel's adoption law now states that "man and wife" will get priority in adopting children. This creates a situation in which same-sex couples are pushed to the end of the waiting list and are not able to adopt babies in Israel. We believe that there is no difference between same-sex couples and a pair of man and woman and thus act to recognize same-sex couples as equals also in the process of adoption.Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: Pro-choiceRunning counter to Hajj Yahya and Glick's proposal is a draft bill being finalized by their colleague, MK Dr. Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), that seeks to ease the criteria for receiving approval from the termination committee at the earlier stages of pregnancy.
She was extremely critical both of the current status of abortions in Israel and her fellow parliamentarians' intentions, saying, "The existing legal situation is already trampling on the fundamental right of a woman to take decisions about her body. Amazingly, MKs Glick and Hajj Yahya are seeking to add insult to injury and add a cleric to the committee, as if it were their bodies being discussed.
"It baffles me that somebody without the tools and the ability to understand the significance of carrying an unwanted pregnancy is seeking to apply additional strictures."Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: NoYesh Atid seeks to permanently bar anyone convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude from serving in public office, the party announced as it released its economic platform on...Source

Should foreigners, currently residing in the United States, have the right to vote?statsdiscuss

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: No"I follow what is happening now in the United States, which is a huge experiment in legalization," Lapid said. "I am against it right now, because as long as it is illegal in Europe, drug traders will move from here to there. But let's see in a...Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: Less, and provide more government fundingIn the 2015 budget formulated by former Minister of Finance, Yair Lapid, the investment in health care increased dramatically by 4 billion NIS. This was to enable the recommendations of the German Committee to be implemented and the treatment and improve the service provided to the Israeli public. During their tenure, Yael German and Yair Lapid increased the health care budget by circa 1 billion NIS and managed the crisis which threatened to close Hadassah Hospital including emergency assistance worth 1.3 billion NIS.
On the subject of financing the public system the committee recommended not to allow Private Medical Service (known by its Hebrew acronym as SHARAP) into public hospitals and that the limitations on privately funded activities within public hospitals should be maintained; in the public hospitals where there is SHARAP, we must ensure that the waiting times for medical procedures are equal, wherever possible, between the public and private options.Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: NoYesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid voiced his opposition Saturday to the possibility that Israel would absorb any refugees from the civil war in Syria, and stressed that the Jewish state must not take any steps that may in the future legitimatize the implementation of a “right of return” for Palestinians.Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: RaisePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid are still at loggerheads over a plan to raise the corporate tax rate on January 1. Netanyahu wants to scrap the plan, which would raise the tax from 25% to 26.5%, up, while Lapid is resisting.Source

Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: HurtFinance Minister Yair Lapid is considering steps to stymie labor unions’ ability to strike, a spokesman confirmed on Monday, to the dismay of opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich (Labor) and the Histadrut labor federation.
Although Lapid promised not to pursue any action to eliminate or even limit the National Labor Court following a meeting with Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, he would not rule out other avenues of circumscribing the situations under which unions are allowed to strike.Source

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Yesh Atid [political party]’s answer: NoFinance Minister Yair Lapid submitted a proposal to the government to raise the 2013 deficit target to 4.9% from 3% of GDP, adding an additional NIS 19b. to the annual deficit. Lapid hopes to pass the proposal, which leaked late Wednesday night, at Sunday’s cabinet meeting.
In addition to increasing deficit targets, Lapid’s plan also ups the limit on how much the government can increase spending from one year to the next, allowing him to spend 2.2% more in 2013 than the previous year. That would give him room to spend NIS 6.5b. more than in 2012, according to figures cited in the proposal [Note: calculations using Treasury figures put the spending increase closer to NIS 6.3b.]. If the plan were approved, the 2013 budget would hover at around NIS 293b.Source

Hatnuah [political party]’s answer: YesTzipi Livni (leader of Hatnu'ah), Israel’s justice minister, is promoting another bill that would allow for “domestic unions” between same-sex couples, thereby granting legal standing to an agreement between two residents of Israel to live together.Source

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Meretz [political party]’s answer: YesMK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), Israel’s only openly gay parliamentarian, also praised the decision on his Facebook page, saying that “the world is changing before our eyes… I call on you, ministers in the Israeli government: Take the right step. Marriage, creating a family — these are basic rights of every human being.”Source

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Meretz [political party]’s answer: YesMost parties have not issued a platform for the elections, but even among the ones that have, only the Zionist camp, Meretz and Yesh Atid directly related to the gay community. They all promise to promote official recognition of same-sex couples, an amendment to the Interpretation Act prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, the possibility of equal adoption for same-sex couples, educational activity against homophobia, preventing discrimination of gay blood donation and promoting equality for transgenders.Source

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Meretz [political party]’s answer: Pro-choiceUnlike Tamir, Knesset member Zehava Gal-On of the Meretz party is determined to change the status quo. Last fall, she submitted a proposal to permit abortions for all women at any time, but the proposal failed to make it out of preliminary committees.
She insists, however, that she will continue to bring it to the Knesset for debate.
“The attempts by Zeev to interfere with women’s choice is making this even more urgent,” she told JTA. “It is simply not right that in a proper, democratic country a governmental committee can deny a woman her basic right to decide what to do with her own body.”Source

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Meretz [political party]’s answer: Less, and there should be no privatization of the healthcare industryAn immediate halt of the privatization and outsourcing of social services, education and healthcare services. At the same time we must act to return the responsibility for these services to the state and to outline a long-term nationalization...Source

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Meretz [political party]’s answer: NoIn the past I called for international intervention in Syria, but I do not see that happening today and Israel has very little ability to motivate such a move. One must also say here a good word for Netanyahu, who avoided carefully entering this...Source

Meretz [political party]’s answer: YesHerzog’s comments met with support from other liberal lawmakers such as Zehava Galon (Meretz), who called for opening Israel’s gates to a token number of refugees from its violence-stricken northern...Source

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Hadash’s answer: No, this would allow ISIS to control SyriaThe Hadash party — one of four parties that makes up the Joint (Arab) List faction in the Knesset — came under fire after one its officials declared support for the Syrian government’s brutal advance in Aleppo.
The comments on the Hadash Facebook page written Friday by Adal Amar, who heads the party’s Communist faction, also stirred angry debate over its position on the Syrian civil war.
“The reunification of the city of [Aleppo] from terror organizations is a turning point… in defeating the imperialist and reactionary assaults on nations of this region,” Amar wrote.
“The reunification of [Aleppo] ends plans to divide Syria, and reflects the failure of US, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari strategy and their inability to continue protecting terror organizations that devastated Syria and ruled over civilians with terror,” he said.Source

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Hadash’s answer: Raise21. Cancellation of budgetary spending limit (Deficit Reduction Act), and financing the necessary additions to social services by increasing collection of direct taxes from the rich (income tax and corporate tax, estate tax and increasing payments of employers to Social Security);Source

Hadash’s answer: Yes, and nationalise the banks5. Cancellation of all privatizations to date of government companies, natural resources (including oil and gas, phosphates and the Dead Sea), banks and public and municipal services and any plans for privatization of state companies and public services, including education and welfare.Source

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Hadash’s answer: Yes16. Raising the top income tax bracket from 45% to 50%, and thus add 3 billion NIS more to the state revenue.
17. The introduction of "rich tax" on those whose income is over a million dollars a year, so that on income in excess of the amount of the top income tax bracket one would pay 55%, which will add 1 billion NIS more to the state revenues.Source

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United Arab List’s answer: No, marriage should be defined as between a man and womanA ripple of laughter went through the meeting when MK Ibrahim Sarsur (United Arab List-Ta’al) said, “I have never had to participate in such a discussion, because in Muslim society we don’t have this problem.”
Sarsur told participants, including members of the gay community, “I respect all those present here, despite significant disagreements. As Muslims, we are obligated to religious law and it (homosexuality) is an unacceptable and condemned phenomenon, which should not be given any opportunities. Every person has the right to do as he wishes as long as he does it in his own home.”Source

Should businesses be required to have women on their board of directors?statsdiscuss

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United Arab List’s answer: No, and I believe a mother and father family structure is best for the childA ripple of laughter went through the meeting when MK Ibrahim Sarsur (United Arab List-Ta’al) said, “I have never had to participate in such a discussion, because in Muslim society we don’t have this problem.”
Sarsur told participants, including members of the gay community, “I respect all those present here, despite significant disagreements. As Muslims, we are obligated to religious law and it (homosexuality) is an unacceptable and condemned phenomenon, which should not be given any opportunities. Every person has the right to do as he wishes as long as he does it in his own home.”Source

Should terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives via assisted suicide?statsdiscuss

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United Arab List’s answer: Yes, but only for medical useWhile Zionist Union, Kulanu, Meretz and yes, the Joint List, are all for medical marijuana, only Kulanu and Meretz support decriminalizing the wacky...Source

Should there be more or less privatization of hospital and healthcare services?statsdiscuss

United Arab List’s answer: Less, and provide more government fundingJoint list: "For. We support raising the healthcare tax by 1% - from 5% to 6% - allowing proper update of the healthcare budget. We also support the return of the parallel tax, which used to be a dedicated budgetary source to the system, but was abolished in 1997".
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Joint list: "For. We believe it is necessary to eliminate all forms of private medicine in public hospitals and to cancel the supplementary insurance policies."Source

Should internet service providers be allowed to speed up access to popular websites (that pay higher rates) at the expense of slowing down access to less popular websites (that pay lower rates)?statsdiscuss

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Kulanu [political party]’s answer: YesHis comments were swiftly denounced by members of Knesset, including Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria and Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, who are both often at the forefront of gender issues.
In a phone conversation with The Times of Israel on Sunday, Azaria said she “didn’t even know” how to respond to Ron-Tal’s claim and said she advocates allowing more women to serve in combat units out of both Zionist and practical considerations.Source

Kulanu [political party]’s answer: NoA senior official in Kulanu, which is a member of the coalition, said his party would oppose any form of legislation that would enable courts, military or civilian, to hand out a death...Source

Kulanu [political party]’s answer: YesAt the Times of Israel first election debate, Kulanu’s Michael Oren said his party supports “equal rights… for same-sex...Source

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Should gay couples have the same adoption rights as straight couples?statsdiscuss

Kulanu [political party]’s answer: YesMeretz’s Michal Rozin, who heads the Knesset’s LGBT lobby, Yael German of Yesh Atid, Merav Michaeli of the Zionist Union and Kulanu’s Merav Ben Ari said in a statement that the decision was homophobic and showed the government’s cynicism toward the homosexual community.Source

Should terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives via assisted suicide?statsdiscuss

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Kulanu [political party]’s answer: Yes, but only for medical useWhile Zionist Union, Kulanu, Meretz and yes, the Joint List, are all for medical marijuana, only Kulanu and Meretz support decriminalizing the wacky...Source

Should there be more or less privatization of hospital and healthcare services?statsdiscuss

Kulanu [political party]’s answer: Less, and provide more government funding3. We will act aggressively against the phenomenon of black medicine in Israel, while creating rules and provisions which will prevent the exploitation of resources in hospitals in favor of private medicine, increased enforcement against the effects of black medicine (including - direct payments to physicians, the use of hospital facilities without permission, giving gifts and benefits to doctors, collection of payments for treatments that should be provided for free as part of the regular health insurance, etc.).
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6. E. 1. Significant reduction of geriatric nursing admission queue
We will allocate the budget needed to significantly reduce the queue waiting for nursing hospitalization. Today, seniors who meet the criteria for hospitalization are forced to wait a long hospitalization in hospitals or in their homes. Increasing the budget will allow a solution immediately.Source

Should internet service providers be allowed to speed up access to popular websites (that pay higher rates) at the expense of slowing down access to less popular websites (that pay lower rates)?statsdiscuss

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Should the government increase video surveillance in public places?statsdiscuss

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Should the government pass laws which protect whistleblowers?statsdiscuss

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Should the government be able to monitor phone calls and emails?statsdiscuss

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Kulanu [political party]’s answer: Yes, for most but not all drugsWhile Zionist Union, Kulanu, Meretz and yes, the Joint List, are all for medical marijuana, only Kulanu and Meretz support decriminalizing the wacky...Source